Is it another Javert and another Jean Valjean?

Crawford 2021-12-18 08:01:03

For many violent enthusiasts, "Only God Can Forgive" is not a good choice, not because it is not violent enough—in fact, it is quite violent. It is because it is stylized enough. These stylizations raise the threshold of watching movies and reduce the pleasure of simply enjoying violence.

Many people don't pay attention to the tone. They think that whether it is fighting halls, ktv rooms, or apartments, the red tone is a matter of course. It has nothing to do with the mood of those people and those things. Isn't this idealism? Many people will feel at a loss for the illegible camera cut in. They don't know why the slightly bald male policeman cut in suddenly, with a knife and a hand. They break the timeline, the logic of the story, and the inertia of people's viewing of movies.

Many people feel that this story is not finished. For example, why did the police do these things, what happened between Commander High and his brother, mother and father, and what was Commander High’s love? They didn’t get it. Watched a movie without beginning and end.

They also refused to believe that the film was meant to be "interpreted."

Cult is only in the sense of communication channels, it has nothing to do with the characteristics of the movie. But if the film can't be cult, it's another poor work destined to be obliterated.

But this is not the audience’s fault. Many of the methods in the film that actually reduce the audience’s comfort are actually meaningless. Its latent text is not worthy of the lengthy, which also contributes to a feature of the film: good interpretation . It was originally those things.

So what did the people who made it want, and what did they get?

This is a story of three people. A person who thinks he is a god, a person who thinks he can defeat him, a person who fears God, but has to stand on the opposite side of God, and would rather accept judgment in the end. The delicate and ambiguous human emotions are just a reasonable motive for various actions, but the final theme is nothing more than three words: crime and punishment.

When Jesus first came out, he was similar to Wang Lin. He said to people: "I am spared your sin!" There was a group of people talking about him, what kind of thing is he, how can he be spared from sin? The grievances in this world are too difficult and too difficult, and only God can forgive them.

What about punishment? Christians have another story. If you are innocent, let's be the first to hit her with a stone!

The solution to this problem in modern society is that it is not people who will judge you, but the law. The law is the common will between people, not the will of God, which violates the divine power.

Of course there is another judgment, the judgment of the human heart. There are many people in the movie who inevitably die. You accept that he must die, and at the same time you forgive him, and some even want him not to die. No matter how bad these people are, there are some untouchable bottom lines. For example, don't kill children.

In this film, Commander High is opposed to killing children. In order to protect the police's daughter, he even killed his accomplices. Later the police killed his mother.

Then I ask you, what happened to the police's daughter later, did Commander High killed her or did not kill her?

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Only God Forgives quotes

  • Crystal: So, tell me, Mai. What line of work are you in?

    Mai: I'm an entertainer.

    Crystal: An entertainer? And how many cocks can you entertain with that cute little cum-dumpster of yours?

  • Crystal: And what with Billy being the older brother and having a bigger cock... Julian's was never small, but Billy's was... oh, it was enormous!